Happy Father’s Day to all the great dads out there. The most masculine thing you can do is have a family and provide and protect them. And if you haven’t yet, get married and have kids.
This is the third or fourth time our family vehicle has been struck by a foreign, uninsured motorist in the last four years.
This time it was - and I'm not making this up - a Muslim man on his way home from Mosque.
Thankfully, this time no one was in our vehicle. It was parked when he struck it hard enough to launch one tire over the curb into the front yard of the house where our car was parked. Our family vehicle.
When it happened to us in 2022 our entire family was in the vehicle (a different one) and our car was totaled. My wife was pregnant with our youngest at the time.
Today I asked the officer what would happen to the guy. Would he be arrested? No, just get a ticket. It's a misdemeanor. Will he have a blood test? No, not without probable cause.
This is not ok.
My family cannot afford to have these reckless, uninsured foreigners smashing into our cars at an average of once a year. We can't.
I know part of the answer is deporting them, and I'm all for that, but we need a better fix in the meantime. I pay my monthly car insurance. I pay $218 EVERY MONTH for auto insurance. This guy will get a ticket that could be LESS THAN I PAY IN ONE MONTH FOR CAR INSURANCE.
In the meantime, my rates are so high because uninsured drivers smash into people left and right. The don't pay. We pay.
This has to change. There need to be significantly higher penalties for uninsured driving, and especially when an uninsured motorist gets in an accident.
Maybe something the Texas legislature could work on next session. @TexasGOP@BrentMoneyTX@brentmoney@DavidLowe4Texas@wesvirdelltx@realmitchlittle@andyhoppertx